Dance break! Robyn starts work on Body Talk follow-up

Robyn’s last album, Body Talk, arrived in 2010. Now, three years is a long time to be Dancing On My Own — not that we’re in any way tired of it. We are strong, pop fans! We are fearless! We…uh, lost ourselves for a second there. (That was only supposed to be a reference to the music — and incidentally, Robyn’s masterpiece of a pop track is definitely still the jam. According to Billboard, the June 2010 single scored a major sales boost this week when it was played twice during Sunday’s Golden Globes broadcast. That bit of exposure tripled its usual daily sales.)

So the timing couldn’t be better for this: news that Robyn is writing her next album.

In a video interview which Pitchfork released this week, Robyn told the website about her plans for early 2013. (They filmed the singer-songwriter in November at the Paris installment of the Pitchfork Music Festival. When they spoke, she was days from wrapping a European tour.)

“I’m supposed to go home and be in the studio,” the Swedish musician said. “I can’t write on tour — I can record and tour at the same time, but I can’t write and tour.” And even though it’s tricky describing something that hasn’t been written yet — at least as of November 2012 — Robyn offered plenty of clues.

“There’s some inspiring music out there that I’m listening to right now,” she said, “and I’m going back to a few things — house music that’s softer, like Balearic house.”

Noted. What else? Body Talk featured a guest appearance from Snoop Dogg. Will the record’s follow-up embrace hip hop?

“I kind of lost faith in hip hop a couple of years ago and I’m starting to maybe have people convince me again because of people like A$AP Rocky and all these people that are coming out now, they have this new energy.”

Also namechecked? House DJ Mark E — and Kindness, a.k.a. Adam Bainbridge, whose record World, You Need a Change of Mind, was apparently on Robyn’s personal Best of 2012 list.

“It first hit me as something as something super retro,” she said of the album. “But then I got into it for real and realized how good it is.”

An example:

“I really don’t know [what the record will sound like] because I haven’t even started writing. It’s going to take shape when I get in there,” Robyn told Pitchfork.